Super-Villain Team-Up (1975) #1

This title may sound familiar if you've stumbled here before. A couple of months back, I picked up a different issue of SVTU.  Marvel published two giant-sized editions, for the most part reprinting material from a few years prior, before making the book a bi-monthly regular.

The giant-sized book sucked, but how about this one?  Let's find out!

Attuma AND Tiger Shark? This CAN'T suck!

Oh, Dr. Dorcas, too. Okay, so maybe it can suck in parts...

The book opens with Namor and Doc Doom arguing about who is partnering with who (whom?). Regretting a very recent decision to work alongside Doom, Namor bails.

Low blow. Namor should have turned around and beat his ass down. I'm fairly certain that Latveria will never make a list of great places to live, either.

At least Doom recognizes his error quickly. He reminisces about all the times he's been defeated by inferior folk in the past and swears to make this partnership work. He fires a fish-rocket camera thing to follow Namor around and record the prince's activities, presumably to sweet-talk him later. No, for real!

For no reason I could identify, Namor heads to a joint called Hydrobase and when he gets there, he's caught in some energy field. He gathers the strength to demolish the machine creating it...

...Then is approached by some douche named Jennings.

Oh, THAT Jennings! Still have no idea who he is, Len.

They are interrupted by Atlantean barbarians who are defeated by Namor in no time. Namor recognizes them as Attuma's men and Jennings confirms that Hydrobase has been taken over by Attuma and his horde. Namor calls bullshit on that and says he'll see to it that freedom is restored, but...

The trinity of evil reveals itself! Namor recovers his wits, flings both Tiger Shark and Attuma into the ocean to fight them and, naturally, ignores Dr. Dorcas.

As logical as that might seem, it comes back to bite him in the ass. Namor holds his own against two mighty opponents but Dorcas blasts him from behind with a very convenient weapon.

Yeah, imagine!

To be continued.

That was much more fun than the giant-size book I read a while ago, helped by the fact that it was Namor-heavy.

Who will rescue the Avenging Son now?! If only someone had tracked his movements with a fish-cam!

Oh, right!  Looking forward to that.